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USC's Dornsife Neuroimaging Center Uses Flywheel to Improve Data Sharing and Collaboration

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Industries	Education Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions	Product Research & Development Quality Assurance
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Data Science Services
Challenge	The Dana and David Dornsife Cognitive Neuroimaging Center (DNI) at the University of Southern California (USC) was facing challenges in distributing data to researchers across the university community. The data from scans conducted at the center had to be transferred to DVDs and delivered to individual researchers or pushed onto the researcher's own DICOM server. These manual processes often resulted in delays and quality concerns. Additionally, Dr. Jonas Kaplan, Assistant Research Professor of Psychology at USC's Brain and Creativity Institute and Co-Director of the DNI, was seeking a new platform to manage his lab's data. He wanted a solution that would allow him to access and curate his data quickly and accurately, while also providing a secure mechanism for sharing data with collaborators and students. Read More
About Customer	The Dana and David Dornsife Cognitive Neuroimaging Center (DNI) is a resource for USC scientists seeking to understand the relation between neural and mental phenomena in humans. The Center serves the neuroimaging needs of researchers across the university as they seek to disseminate knowledge about the brain, mind, and imaging practices to students and the public. The Center's leadership includes Dr. Jonas Kaplan, Assistant Research Professor of Psychology at USC's Brain and Creativity Institute and Co-Director of the DNI, who was seeking a new platform to manage his lab's data. Read More
Solution	The DNI chose to install Flywheel, a comprehensive data management platform for imaging research, to manage and distribute the Center's data. Flywheel's capabilities include the ability to ingest data from disparate sources, curate data to common standards, automate processing, and provide for secure collaboration. With Flywheel, the Center is able to provide value-added services to research labs across the university and support improved productivity through faster, secure delivery of data. Center administrators can also ensure quality control with automated checks and support remote access. In addition to using Flywheel to manage the Center's data, Dr. Kaplan uses the lab version to manage his own research. Flywheel's capabilities to automatically convert data from DICOM to NIFTI and support consistent data curation, allow Dr. Kaplan to spend much more time analyzing the data and disseminating findings instead of managing and processing data. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms

Applicable Industries

Education

Healthcare & Hospitals

Applicable Functions

Product Research & Development

Quality Assurance

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

The Dana and David Dornsife Cognitive Neuroimaging Center (DNI) at the University of Southern California (USC) was facing challenges in distributing data to researchers across the university community. The data from scans conducted at the center had to be transferred to DVDs and delivered to individual researchers or pushed onto the researcher's own DICOM server. These manual processes often resulted in delays and quality concerns. Additionally, Dr. Jonas Kaplan, Assistant Research Professor of Psychology at USC's Brain and Creativity Institute and Co-Director of the DNI, was seeking a new platform to manage his lab's data. He wanted a solution that would allow him to access and curate his data quickly and accurately, while also providing a secure mechanism for sharing data with collaborators and students.

About Customer

The Dana and David Dornsife Cognitive Neuroimaging Center (DNI) is a resource for USC scientists seeking to understand the relation between neural and mental phenomena in humans. The Center serves the neuroimaging needs of researchers across the university as they seek to disseminate knowledge about the brain, mind, and imaging practices to students and the public. The Center's leadership includes Dr. Jonas Kaplan, Assistant Research Professor of Psychology at USC's Brain and Creativity Institute and Co-Director of the DNI, who was seeking a new platform to manage his lab's data.

Solution

The DNI chose to install Flywheel, a comprehensive data management platform for imaging research, to manage and distribute the Center's data. Flywheel's capabilities include the ability to ingest data from disparate sources, curate data to common standards, automate processing, and provide for secure collaboration. With Flywheel, the Center is able to provide value-added services to research labs across the university and support improved productivity through faster, secure delivery of data. Center administrators can also ensure quality control with automated checks and support remote access. In addition to using Flywheel to manage the Center's data, Dr. Kaplan uses the lab version to manage his own research. Flywheel's capabilities to automatically convert data from DICOM to NIFTI and support consistent data curation, allow Dr. Kaplan to spend much more time analyzing the data and disseminating findings instead of managing and processing data.

Impact #1	The Center is able to provide value-added services to research labs across the university.
Impact #2	Improved productivity through faster, secure delivery of data.
Impact #3	Quality control with automated checks.

Impact #1

The Center is able to provide value-added services to research labs across the university.

Impact #2

Improved productivity through faster, secure delivery of data.

Impact #3

Quality control with automated checks.

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USC's Dornsife Neuroimaging Center Uses Flywheel to Improve Data Sharing and Collaboration

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